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Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha strive to protect their unconventional family.

"Рука" - це оповідання відомого українського письменника Івана Багряного. Воно розповідає про долю та внутрішній світ хлопця, який втратив одну руку внаслідок нещасного випадку. Головний герой оповідання стикається з великими труднощами та перешкодами через свою інвалідність, але з часом знаходить в собі сили подолати життєві труднощі і знайти своє місце в світі. "Рука" - це твір, що змушує задуматися над значенням самоствердження та внутрішньої сили людини, незважаючи на обставини. Він відображає важливість долі та воля до життя, які допомагають герою подолати всі перешкоди і знайти своє місце у світі.

Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.

A young, closeted TV newscaster tries to make his way during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Based on the true-life story of three-time Emmy award-winning anchorman and best-selling author turned actor, Mark Pettit.

In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.

Verona, 1880. Un grande esodo sta svuotando le campagne: l'America è la Terra Promessa, e migliaia di contadini oltre la soglia della povertà vendono tutto per correre a Genova, e lì imbarcarsi sui grandi piroscafi della speranza reclamizzati dalla Casa Generale di Spedizioni Marittime del ricco Isaia Bordignon. Federico Giorio, giovane procuratore legale e fervente repubblicano, non è riuscito a incastrare il losco faccendiere e per punizione è assegnato a un caso minore: il brutale omicidio di un esattore male in arnese.

This is a story of an African orphan, Felix, who loses his parents as a very young boy. He embarks on a long journey searching for meaning in his life. On his journey he seeks to find answers and discover what there is to live for?

Three years after the Revolution, Tehran looks like a boneyard. Shahed has returned from California to his homeland to face the ghost of his father, to find out who betrayed him as a child, to recover something that might make him feel alive. Witnessing the brutalities of militant fundamentalists, he wishes his exuberant hustler of a father were alive again to kick the mullahs and their vicious crusade out of Iran. Shahed conjures up his life as a twelve-year-old, superimposing on the grim streets the bizarre exploits of his lusty father and his crazy cohorts in the days of the Shah.

They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination…and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression.

Mit Mitte zwanzig hat er schon mehrere Leben hinter sich: eine Kindheit in Armut, die Scham über die eigene Herkunft, die Flucht vom Dorf in die Kleinstadt, der Aufbruch nach Paris. Er macht sich frei von den Grenzen der Herkunft, nimmt einen neuen Namen an, liest und schreibt wie ein Besessener, prostituiert sich, probiert sich aus. Immer neue Welten erschließen sich ihm, und doch hinterfragt er ständig die Selbstveränderung, die sich nie ganz vollendet.

En este viaje sentimental por Bretaña, la tierra idílica de su infancia, Le Clézio nos invita a reflexionar sobre la identidad territorial, los nacionalismos y el paso del tiempo. Desde su primer recuerdo —la explosión de una bomba en el jardín de la casa de su abuela—, pasando por los años vividos como niño de la guerra, que de forma tan terrible impactaron en su aprendizaje del mundo, el premio Nobel de Literatura dibuja una página imprescindible de su geografía emocional que habla de la pertenencia y su lugar en la memoria.

It's a story of the fashion world and rock-and-roll world, and being an author staying in Scotland on benefits, then waking up as an author and songwriter and fashion model.

Diez años después de la muerte de Stieg Larsson, el autor de la saga Milenium, su archivo privado se abre por primera vez. Un archivo que había sido olvidado durante todos estos años, hasta el año 2014, cuando el periodista Jan Stocklassa obtuvo acceso a él. Allí encontró, en veinte cajas de cartón, rastros de un proyecto secreto de Larsson: la investigación sobre el asesinato del Primer ministro sueco Olof Palme. 

It's 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, travel to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will be forced to ask themselves how far they will go to remain his wife....

Bethenny Frankel, four-time New York Times best-selling author, self-made businesswoman, and media maven, offers her hard-won guidance on dating and relationships in the tradition of her breakout book, A Place of Yes.

One of the first true novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe is the famous adventure of a castaway and his desert-island companion, Friday.

Zwölf historische Miniaturen über bemerkenswerte Geschehnisse und Augenblicke aus der Geschichte der Menschheit. Im ersten Teil Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit geht es um die Entdeckung des pazifischen Ozeans 1513 durch den Abenteurer und Desperado Nunez de Balboa, der dem Galgen der spanischen Krone zu entkommen sucht, indem er das Goldland der Inkas in Peru und den Zugang zum pazifischen Meer sucht. Er wird als dessen erster europäischer Entdecker unsterblich für die westliche Welt. Stefan Zweig erzählt die Absurditäten und Widrigkeiten dieser Flucht in die Unsterblichkeit.

A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France. Within moments, word spreads that Nazi capture is imminent, and the men flee for the woods, desperate to disappear across the Spanish border. One stays behind, determined to ride the train until he reaches home, to find a woman he refers to simply as “her.”

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy that her late husband, Charles VIII, King of France, had wrested from her. At age 21, Anne is sovereign ruler of Brittany as well as Europe's most wealthy widow. But can she maintain Brittany's independence from France if she accepts Louis's offer to make her Queen of France once more?

From the author of Caligula comes a new stand-alone novel in the Damned Emperors series: Commodus. AD 162. Rome is enjoying a period of stability and prosperity. The Empire's bounds are increasing, and two sons are born into the imperial succession for the first time in nearly a century. But all is not as it appears - cracks are beginning to show. The wars have rumbled on too long, and there are whispers of a sickness in the East. Just 30 years later, the Empire will be caught up in civil war, the imperial dynasty ended and Rome burned.